Do people just hate mages or something? February 19, 2012
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Been playing my restoration shaman for over a year. I’ve run Cata heroics using the dungeon finder dozens of times, and have never had someone roll against me for gear for their off-spec when I needed it for my main spec. I’ve also used the dungeon finder as enhancement dozens of times, and again, no one has ever rolled against me for gear that they wanted for off-spec.
My mage alt has been 85 for about 2.5 weeks, and already I’ve had three people roll against me on gear for their off-spec:
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This is why you shouldn’t bump Earth Shields February 11, 2012
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Ran LFR Madness today with a friend. For Warmaster Blackhorn, I was wrestling with a second resto shaman who kept bumping me no matter what tank I switched to. For Spine of Deathwing, a third shaman joined the raid, but I couldn’t be sure whether shaman #3 was also bumping or if it was just shaman #2. I could be sure that neither was even attempting to shield the second tank or another target because, every time my ES did fall off on its own, I got the raid-wide “Earth Shield Missing!” warning.
Got to Madness and shaman #2 left. I mentioned before we started how glad I was that he was gone since he’d been bumping me the entire raid.
The fight starts, wherein I learn that shaman #3 is also a bumper. The entire fight, shaman #3 is periodically bumping me and not even trying to shield the second tank.
We kill the boss, and Maw of the Dragonlord drops. I have the iLvl 403 version, so I don’t need it. But I roll need anyways, just to try and stop the other resto shaman from getting it. I win it.
I tell the other healers not to leave, then check their rolls and their healing numbers. The last place healer was supposed to win the mace, so I traded it to the #2 paladin healer who was generally doing a good job the entire raid.
The other shaman whispers me, and this is what I said:
I feel vindicated.
Earth-Shield-Bumpers and Why We Hates Them January 23, 2012
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I ran LFR Siege of Wyrmrest Temple earlier this week and had to quit it one boss shy of completing it because my daughter was home from Girl Scouts. (BTW, support your local Girl Scouts: buy cookies!) Yesterday I decided I would finish it off. I q’ed up as heals and was pleased when it put me in a raid that was at Hagara.
Now, my Power Auras is set up to give me two notifications: one for when there is no Earth Shield anywhere in the raid, and another for when I don’t have an Earth Shield up anywhere. Before we pulled the boss, I saw that there was another resto shaman, and I saw that only my personal “Missing Earth Shield” icon was up, meaning that the other resto shaman had Earth Shielded one of the two tanks. I looked at the tanks, found the one that lacked an Earth Shield, and hit him up. He rushed out and aggro’ed Hagara and the fight started.
A few seconds into the fight, Power Auras notified me that my Earth Shield was missing. The other resto shaman had switched to trying to Earth Shield my target (who happened to be the main tank on this one-tank fight).
Oh, no you didn’t, I thought, and put my ES right back on that tank. The other shaman bumped my ES off again. We started to go back and forth.
The Wipe That Became a Guild Invite March 7, 2011
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Or, How I Met My Guild
It was 3 AM and I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to attempt my daily random heroic. My queue came up rather quickly and I saw that I was entering Grim Batol.
I sighed. Grim Batol was the only heroic that I hadn’t finished yet, on account of the fact that the third and final bosses are sort of hard to complete if your DPS is either sucky, or bad at switching to DPS’ing adds, or both. As luck would have it, the random dungeon finder seems to have a knack for sticking me with sucky DPS.
